Book review

Sharon Y. Tettegah and Yolanda Evie Garcia’s collection Emotions, Technology, and Health surveys how technologies “old” (e.g., photographs, the telephone) and “new” (e.g., mobile apps, robots, sensors) “mediate” patients’ emotions within the context of processes, individuals, and spaces part of, adjacent to, or outside of the clinical healthcare setting (p. xvii). The collection also explores technology’s mediation of practitioner and caregiver emotions. Overall, Tettegah and Garcia hope to expand the notion of “telehealth” beyond the remote or virtual delivery of health services to something that also encompasses “technology‐based interventions in hospitals and other treatment settings that do not include distance as a necessary component” (p. xv).

ar' no reference is made to England. Beginning with (jev ^ brief account of the anatomy, a considerable space is xnea? e<^ to the available instruments. A useful table of the SUrements in the bronchial tree follows, and remarks on ])0ojPr.eParation of the patient, etc. The next section of the their rf ^evotecI to foreign bodies in the respiratory system, is the n an<^ removal. The author evidently feels this the ,CSt *mPortant part of the work, and devotes a third of ieSpi book to it. A very full account of diseases of the and k ^ system from the endoscopic point of view is given, is a v ere the author relies mainly on his own experience ; this the atanC^ subject, he says, which has failed to receive ention it merits. He deals first with diseases of the bronchi, etc., proper, then with the effect on the bronchi of disease in other parts, in each case giving some startling account' of endoscopic treatment of these conditions. The third part of the book is occupied with a series of coloured plates, beautifully produced. In the main post-mortem findings are shown. Description is given of each plate on the page opposite. A complete index ends the book. There is an obvious criticism that this subject is too closely related to Oesophagoscopy to be conveniently separated from it. The author himself seems to feel the difficulty at times, for example when dealing with the effect of oesophageal disease on the trachea. Since, however, a writer on the two subjects combined is apt to devote the bulk of the space to the oesophagus, there is certainly room for this work, even though it deals with conditions less commonly seen.
Especially notable is the insistence on the possibilities of endoscopy through a tracheotomy opening. Dr. Moodie is to be congratulated on the excellent manner in which this work is presented to us. Price 25s. net.? This manual, which shows evidence of minute care in preparation, is one of those books which are indispensable in the library of the modern physician. For many years the pleasantly discursive but less comprehensive volume of Sir James Clark, published somewhere in the forties, on The Sanative Influence' of Climate, supplied all that was needed in regard to the com" paratively few avowed health resorts of England and Wales-The fuller needs of to-day are well met by Dr. Hawkins' manual, in which the meteorological and geographical factors influencing' climate are discussed, the general climate of the British Islands considered, and finally some detailed consideration of the various districts, north, south, east and west, with reference to the chief resorts and their climatic peculiarities, succinctly given. Altogether a very useful and well-produced book. 1923.
Price 12s. 6d. net. ??The author has endeavoured to portray in his coloured plates a characteristic example of an eruption in a characteristic situation. His tw? plates represent the anterior and posterior aspects of the human body ; upon this single outline the various skin lesions aie depicted. On the head are patches of alopecia areata, ring" worm, tertiary syphilis, impetigo and the like ; on the chest seborrhoea, small pox, pityriasis versicolor, etc. ; on the abdomen scarlet fever, measles, pityriasis rosea, X-ray burn ; and s?
forth. The author in his preface points out that the lesions and do occur in other parts of the body than those } *ustrated in the chart. The accompanying letterpress gives lri tabular form a short description of each eruption, its etiology, common sites, irritation or its absence, other conditions from hich the eruption must be distinguished, various notes on the ehaviour of the disease and a brief suggestion as to treatment.
? , compilation has been carefully prepared, but we doubt the plates and letterpress together will serve to act as ariything more than a reminder to a practitioner who is well ersed in ordinary skin diseases. To the beginner both the ^ates and the letterpress may convey but little information. ton the whole, the portrayal of the lesions in the plates is not be compared with modern colour photography as an aid to ? e study of dermatology. It includes all the ailments he is likely to require to treat, and a few besides ; the written description of the necessary steps in the operative or other treatment is a model of lucidity, and the illustrations are both numerous and truly illustrative. The book is well printed and produced. If we might offer a few suggestions for future editions, we would like to see a fuller account of the means of treating suppurative conditions of the hand, making use of the work of Kanavel and Wilkie, and insisting on the importance of a general anaesthetic (not gas), and a tourniquet, when incising for pus. We doubt if a purse-string stitch is the best means of closing a perforated gastric ulcer. In Fig. 36 Macewen's triangle is shown so large that the inexperienced operator who trusts to it will infallibly miss the mastoid antrum. authors deal with their subject in all its variation as seen by the venereal expert, the gynaecologist and the physician, and each will find advice of value. The book should be a guide to all those in charge of venereal disease clinics for women ; the method of examination, the apparatus necessary and the bacteriological control are ail excellent and should be followed. As regards the treatment advocated, this is, in the main, simple ; fluorine and potassium permanganate in their various strengths are the chemicals generally recommended, and these applied thoroughly under the guidance of " sight not feel " have, in the authors hands, effected a cure in the majority of cases both gonorrhoea! and non-gonorrhoeal. The suggestion that treatment could be carried out by the general practitioner is certainly true, but we doubt the ability of the majority to give the necessary time, and perfunctory treatment is useless. The chapter on prophylaxis is good and fair to both parties in controversy on this vexed question, and the difficulty of prophylaxis in women is pointed out.
There is a large amount of repetition in the text. The book should be read by students, general practitioners and specialists, especially those in charge of venereal disease clinics, to whom it is invaluable.  Pp. viii., 180. London : William Heinemann. 1924.?This little book, as indicated in the Preface, does not pretend to present more than an outline of the diseases of the ear, nose and throat. Diagnosis hardly receives any place, and the enormous wealth of prescriptions will appear to the English practitioner to be superfluous. The rather free use of cocaine is to be deprecated. Operative treatment is merely indicated, and in some instances seems to be rather delayed. Like most French books, great care is devoted to the technique of treatment, and some valuable hints may be gained from it. The method of intratracheal administration of drugs by injection with a hypodermic syringe through the cricothyroid membrane is a little in advance of the teaching in this country. Porter, who fell in the service of his country shortly after the publication of his work on Diseases of the Throat, Nose and E^> this handbook is produced as the joint work of those engaged in the teaching and practice of the speciality in the Edinburgh Medical School. In order to provide for the senior student and the practitioner within the limitations of a single volume moderate size, it has required great judgment in preserving a balance in dealing with the subject-matter comprised in the thirty-nine chapters, and the rigid exclusion of any redundant or wordy description. The illustrated description of the clinical anatomy is well done, and adds much to the ready understanding of the pathology and treatment of the various regions. The sections devoted to the newer methods 0 diagnosis, e.g. endoscopy covering cesophagoscopy an bronchoscopy, and the physiology of the vestibular apparatus add much to the value of the work. There are no less thai} twelve plates, many of these in colour, and 222 black an white illustrations, all excellent and none redundant. It 1 difficult to distinguish in the merit of the work of the differe? contributors, for throughout the volume the work is of th highest merit. To cover adequately the extensive gr?UI1a comprised in diseases of the nose, throat and ear within volume of this size reflects the greatest credit on the Edit and his staff, and we know of no work on the speciality of t ^ same size which affords such a complete clinical picture of a 11 "that could be of practical value to the senior student and practitioner. We cannot withhold praise for the printing, ustrations and everything that pertains to the publisher's Partment, including very good value at the price.